Young black men have experienced the sharpest rise in unemployment since the coalition came to power, with more than one in four of all black 16-24-year-olds currently out of work, according to a TUC report on youth unemployment.

A majority (63%) of people in Britain think that the Government’s proposal for owner-employee schemes is a bad idea, according to a YouGov poll.

More than a quarter (28%) of UK employees believe there is less stigma associated with mental health issues in the workplace than a year ago, according to new research by Aviva.

Only 4% of employers reported that they had reduced their use of agency workers in direct response to the Agency Worker Regulations (AWR), according to on-going analysis of the impact of the one-year-old rules conducted by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC).